Historians, of all people, should understand the dangers of prematurely evaluating a President’s foreign policy record. Quite apart from all that we learn as archives open, the passage of time provides perspective. To take an obvious example: while few contemporary observers would celebrate it now, at the time, Ronald Reagan’s approach to Afghanistan was heralded [...]
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Obama and U.S. Foreign Policy
by KC JohnsonTuesday, January 26th, 2010
Tags: Afghanistan, Barack Obama, China, Congress, Czech Republic, Gay rights, guantanamo, Honduras, Hugo Chávez, iran, Israel, John McCain, Peggy Noonan, Poland, POLITICO, Rashid Khalidi, Ronald Reagan, Russia, State of the Union
Posted in Afghanistan, Afghanistan War: 2001-present, Barack Obama administration: 2009-present, China, Congress, Honduras, Iran, Israel, Op-Eds, Post-Cold War: 1991-2001, Ronald Reagan administration: 1981-1989, Roundtable | No Comments »
A View from the Outside: Assessing Obama’s First Year as President
by Sandra ScanlonTuesday, January 26th, 2010
Barack Obama’s run for the presidency was observed by European publics perhaps more than any US election in recent history. Students, for whom the presidency of Bill Clinton was barely a memory and little more than a footnote introducing the Bush era, debated the relative merits of a Clinton or Obama nomination largely in terms [...]
Tags: Afghanistan, al Qaeda, Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, climate change, Cold War, Copenhagen, Europe, George W. Bush, Hillary Clinton, iran, iraq, Israel, Nobel Peace Prize, State of the Union, Taliban
Posted in Afghanistan War: 2001-present, Barack Obama administration: 2009-present, Bill Clinton administartion: 1993-2001, Congress, Culture and international relations, Environmental Concerns, Europe, European Union, Imperialism/Colonization, International Organizations, Iran, Iraq, Iraq War: 2003-present, Israel, Late Cold War: 1961-1991, Op-Eds, Post-9/11: 2001-present, Presidency, Roundtable, State Department, Western Europe | No Comments »
Weekly Digest 12/2/09
by Nick DucoteWednesday, December 2nd, 2009
This is the only nonfiction work of note to focus on the overlooked region where California and Mexico blur together in a mutation of the American dream. It is one of the nation’s most productive farming areas but suffers perpetual poverty and 20 percent-plus unemployment, as well as intractable environmental problems. [more]
On Nov. 3, the [...]
Tags: Afghanistan, Gaza, George W. Bush, guantanamo, Human Rights, Israel, Palestine, Taliban
Posted in Afghanistan, Afghanistan War: 2001-present, Anti-War Efforts, Around the Web, Barack Obama administration: 2009-present, Borderland studies, George W. Bush administration: 2001-2008, Israel, Lyndon Johnson administration: 1963-1969, Pakistan | No Comments »